Mary Anna Konz

May 15, 2014

Mary Anna Konz , age 94, of Sleepy Eye, MN died on May 12, 2014, at Sleepy Eye Care Center.

Visitation will be on Thursday from 4-8 p.m. and will continue on Friday from 7:30-10 a.m. at the Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye. There will be a Christian Mothers rosary at 4 p.m. and a parish prayer service at 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Funeral service will be held at the St. Mary's Catholic Church, Sleepy Eye, on Friday, May 16, at 10:30 a.m.

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Mary Anna Konz was born on November 30, 1919 in Orient, S.D., to Joseph and Anna (Wiesler) Gaspar. She married George Peter Konz in Polo, S.D., on June 11, 1940. They moved to Minnesota in 1940 during the "Armistice Day"?blizzard and lived on the farm until moving to town. She was a member of St. Mary's Church in Sleepy Eye. Mary enjoyed quilting, cards, fishing, gardening and surrounding herself with her 15 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.